Analysis of One Last Line
The older I get,
the more dear words become
The shorter the days,
the deeper streams run
With time closing in,
I seek poems and rhymes
Into the twilight
—for that last magic line
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011 011101 01001 01011 11100 111001 0101 111101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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